Crucial Track for April 26, 2025

"Stellar" by Incubus Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that got you through a difficult time. Ah, limerance. Stellar, by Incubus, was a favorite song for several years, that I used to sing loudly, awfully, while cleaning my house and wearing big, over-the-ear headphones jacked into a portable CD player (or my pocket PC with the flash card). This song was less about getting me through trouble as much as it was referencing the trouble.

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Crucial Track for April 24, 2025

"Oye Como Va" by Santana Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. I rolled tonight. I'm a terrible bowler. Out of three games, I scored just above 70 in each the first two games. Lots of gutterballs. Like ridiculous. But then in the third game, things settled down and technique improved enough that I got strikes in four frames and finished with a score of 156.

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When you love a song, do you always?

I do.

I horde favorite songs. I retain sentimental affection.

I think without exception.

Crucial Track for April 22, 2025

"Kinky Afro" by Happy Mondays Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Just an ear worm, today. But it’s loaded. This dates from my days working for a former retail chain called Spec’s Music and Movies in the 1990s. It was a family-owned chain, based in Miami, Florida, USA. I worked in a regionally successful location on NW 13th Street in Gainesville, Florida. The manager of the store was fond of playing the Happy Monday’s album Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches in store when it was au current.

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I realize I’m of a demographic, one that still regularly watches prime-time programming, but it really is cringe to see commercial after commercial for new medications with really alarming side-effects.

Crucial Track for April 21, 2025

"Eyes of the World (Live)" by Grateful Dead Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that changed your perspective on music. I never saw them with Jerry Garcia. I did see "The Dead" play at an outdoor concert in a very uptight community that put a significant damper on fan activities. I have also seen Rat Dog play at First Avenue. My first exposure to the music of The Grateful Dead was via a group called Dark Star Orchestra.

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Putting this here for posterity. Just updated an HP Elitebook x360 1040 G5 laptop to Ubuntu 25.04.

I used the recommendation here which has resolved an issue where the only sound device was Dummy Audio:

BANG & OLUFSEN speaker no sound on Linux Mint 21.2 on HP ENVY 17

Two take-aways from my one-pager edit, today.

  1. I can open an SVG file in BBEdit to get the vector information—no need to find the raw HTML online.
  2. I still don’t understand all of the components of the SVG data and how CSS interacts inside of the template I’m customizing.

But? It works.

As an HTML hobbyist, it is excruciating to constantly come up against the difference between what I think I know and what I actually know. This is how I learn best, but it is so humbling. I thought I understood including in-line SVG images. I’m progressing.

Crucial Track for April 20, 2025

"Highwire Days" by The Psychedelic Furs Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Hopefully I don't stay stuck in 80s references! I got to see Psychedelic Furs live once at the University of Florida Bandshell, back in the early 1990s. My first exposure to them was on a local radio show in the Minneapolis radio market circa 1982, and I borrowed the Mirror Moves vinyl from an acquaintance and taped it.

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